The refugee crisis became a sci-fi dystopia, a handful of dust took us to the moon and back, a Polish pioneer had suggestive fun with hot dogs and love returned to the Left Bank. Our critic picks his 2017 highlights

Chris Ofili stitched up Eden, Rodney Graham went stilt-walking, Picasso biked to the bullfight and Rachel Whiteread poured herself a hot water bottle. But the year belonged to the unsettling, eruptive visions of Wolfgang Tillmans

He upended fashion photography and embraced digital technology to create luminously beautiful images of nature. As his new Tate show opens, Wolfgang Tillmans talks about his reinvention as an EU posterboy – and his four-hour version of the Pet Shop Boys hit It’s a Sin